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| DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS OF HIGH COURT: LITIGANTS AWAIT SPEEDY JUSTICE | | | Jammu, July 29 : The CBI, the state authorities and the police messed up the sex scam case. Its fallout was hazardous on the unit of the members of the Bar Associations in Srinagar and Jammu and that of several hundred litigant public.
And the very mess-up cast its shadow on the diamond jubilee celebrations of the state High Court held in Srinagar where besides the President of India, Dr A.P.J.Kalam,Chief Justice of India,Justice Mr Y.K.Sabharwal, and prominent lawyers, jurists and political leaders were present.
Again the mess-up kicked up a piquant situation. While the Bar Association in Jammu went on an indefinite strike in protest against refusal of the concerned authorities for transferring trial of sex scam case from Srinagar to Jammu in the interest of speedy and fair justice, its counter part in Srinagar boycotted the Presidents’ functions in Srinagar, including his address during the diamond jubilee celebrations of the State High Court.Though JBA has been on indefinite strike it sent a delegation to attend the diamond jubilee celebrations after the Chief Justice of the High Court Mr BA Khan assured that agitating lawyers that he would examine their plea.
And when veteran jurists, including Mr Muzaffar Hussain Baig,Deputy Chief Minister,and the Chief Minister,Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad,announced their wish list on speedy justice many among the litigant public,listening to their speeches from a distance,had hardly felt encouraged. They had been in a mood of despair because of the indefinite strike by members of the Jammu Bar Association which had paralysed the court functioning with adverse affect on pending cases of thousands of litigants.A large number of people who are awating resumption of hearing of their cases to the courts for the last one month said that on one hand judicial activism in India had been beneficial for common people who had been victimised by the erratic functioning of the executive on the other hand the continued lawyers strike in Jammu and the boycott of diamond jubilee celebrations of the High C ourt in Srinagr by the members of the Kashmir Bar association have been "bane for us".
They demanded that the concerned authorities, whether in the executive or in the judicial set up, put their heads together and resolve the deadlock so that normal functioning of the courts in Jammu was resumed as early as possible. ( |
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